Anonymous
I really love your art! Do you mind if I use it in a video? If I can, what do you want to be credited as? I will of course link back to your social media networks and the original art~
Thank you! And go ahead! : D You can credit me as ohseagull and just link them over here : )
For the record, anybody is free to share my art wherever, or use it for headers and icons and video content and stuff, as long they link back and everything. The usual “please don’t be an art thief” stuff~
Anonymous
I'm sorry I'm on mobile but what's your Twitter?
My twitter handle is the same as here on tumblr!~ Here’s a link, though.
Anonymous
how do i get people to notice my art? i draw constantly but im afraid that my art isnt good enough for people to care about. i saw something like "you deserve the popularity you get" and im scared of that being true. often times i see a lot of artists who are honestly less skilled or original than me but theyre incredibly popular, and im scared that im doomed to fail in obscurity forever. its really disheartening when i see my art just get ignored and it feels kinda hopeless. what should i do
Oh man, I dunno if I’m the best person to ask about this - even with recent events I wouldn’t call myself a “noticed” artist by any means - but I’ll try my hand at an answer.
I feel like being noticed as an artist is a really precarious balance between luck and skill. Sometimes you get lucky, and sometimes you don’t, but either way you have to try your best, hokey as that sounds? The one thing in all of this art craziness that you can control - can’t control luck, can’t control other people, and controlling insecurities is often a tug-o-war sort of battle - is how much stuff you make, and what stuff you make that you put out there in the public sphere.
I’m in a pretty constant state of flux about whether I like or hate any given thing I create, honestly. I feel like a lot of artists go through that, though? You’re pretty much always your own worst critic, I’ve found, and art is no exception. But I decided a short while ago that if I wasn’t meeting my own standards, I would just have to keep drawing or writing or whatever it is until I do, even if by that point my standards have risen and I don’t meet those new ones. Even though that’s a lot easier to say than do a lot of the time.
So when I’m feeling really down about my work, I try to channel it in to something productive. Take all that pent-up frustration (at yourself, at others, at whatever) and make something really awesome with it!
I don’t know about “deserving the popularity you get,” or anything like that, but I do think effort is rewarded. Even if it’s just in the self-fulfillment sense.
…I’m not sure that actually answered your questions, but I hope it helped? I feel like this was kinda rambling. I really don’t consider myself to be an artist with that much exposure…but again, you’re always your own worst critic. I’m flattered that you thought to ask me, though. : )
Anonymous
Long time fan here! Your SU art is so great its like you're one of the shows artists! Can I ask if you have any plans to do an ask blog for SU like you did for the Adventure Time Ice Finn Au? I'd follow it so fast if you had the time to do it!! :)
Thank you!!
And I won’t say it’ll never happen, because who knows!
Anonymous
you should totally talk to some of the SU creators on tumblr (like jeff liu, he even checked out my trash artwork once haha) ! I'm sure they'll love your art and want you, either to work on SU or maybe a future show, but your artwork is too good to camp out like this!! Seriously talk to them ahhh your artworks great
Thank you : )
I’ve admittedly had a few “sempai noticed me” moments and they’re always ultra cool, but it’s like..man, I don’t even know. I have enough trouble telling artists that I like that I, well, like them - I always feel like I might easily be coming off as kinda creepy? And that goes double for people with larger followings (either professional or amateur) where they probably get tons of stuff coming their way anyway.
I don’t want to put my life on hold hoping for someone to notice me, either. I would LOVE that kind of opportunity, but I can’t just wait around for it. I tried to do that for a while, and just like “waiting around” generally implies, I didn’t get anywhere. Now I have plans for the future set in motion, even if they’re not illustration-based, so if the opportunity did strike I don’t know if I could feasibly even take it? Which…is a bit sad, I guess, but again, I can’t wait around. It’s not like I’m going ahead with something I wouldn’t like to do, either. ,: )
…Well, that got more personal than I was going for. Sorry about that.
(But seriously, I’d still love to draw a variant cover for the comic or something, even if career-wise I’m elsewhere. That would be really really cool.)
Anonymous
If you were a crystal gem; where would your gem be?
Turquoise, all the way.
…sorry, I don’t have a gemsona or anything like that. But if I did, it would be Turquoise.
EDIT: I cannot read English apparently, and my answer is a resounding…I dunno?
Anonymous
Your Steven universe artwork resembles so much to the show!!! Did you apply for the storyboard artist thing they were doing?
Thank you! And I was going to, but they removed it before I could apply ,: )
Anonymous
love your drawing in the stevenbomb 2.0 episodes! so i was wondering if you drew something like that for the first stevenbomb episodes? :)
No, I didn’t :,) I did draw some stevenbomb-related fanart in general that week, though!
Anonymous
you amaze me!!! the level of detail in your Steven Bomb 2.0 art was INSANE!!! I love your work wow wow wow *v*
Thank you! : D
Wow wow wow, thank you soooo much! Not gonna lie, the recent response I’ve gotten has been way more than I expected. You people are all pretty great!
And man, doing one for my favorite episode would mean picking a singular favorite episode…sounds really hard, I dunno~